Groups

Working with groups

• Click Users and Groups on the Control Panel
• Click Groups
• This brings you to the groups page for the course
  • Any groups that have already been created will be displayed here
• There are two ways to create groups:
  • Create Single Group: only one group will be created
  • Create Group Set: a specified number of duplicate, numbered groups will be created
  • See below for how to use each

• Click Create tab
• Under Single Group, Either:
  • Click Self-Enroll (if you want students to enroll themselves in the group) OR
  • Click Manual Enroll (if you want to assign students to the group)
• Fill in name and other necessary information
• Set visibility
• Select Tools and personalization settings for the group
• Set availability
• Advanced Options
  • Create Smart View
• If you chose Self-Enroll,
  • Fill in name and other necessary information for Sign-up Options section
    • Maximum Number of Members
    • Show Members
    • Allow students to sign-up from the groups listing page
• If you chose Manual Enroll
  • Click Add Users, under Membership
  • Either:
    • Select Users from the list OR
    • Search for Users using the search bar
  • Click Submit

• Click Create tab
• Under Group Set, Either:
  • Click Self-Enroll if you want students to enroll themselves in a group OR
  • Click Manual Enroll to assign students to each group OR
  • Click Random Enroll to randomly distribute the students into groups
• Fill out the group name, description, and availability options.
  • The name of each individual group will be the name you chose here plus a number (name1, name2, name3, etc.)
• Set visibility
• Choose Tools and personalization settings for the groups
• Set availability
• Select any Standard Options wanted
• If you chose self enroll
  • Fill in name and other necessary information for Sign-up Options section
    • Maximum Number of Members
    • Show Members
    • Allow students to sign-up from the groups listing page
  • Specify how many groups you want to create
  • Click Submit
• If you chose Manual Enroll,
  • Specify how many groups you want to create
  • To assign members
    • Click Add Users in Group
    • Either:
      • Select Users from the list OR
      • Search for Users using the search bar
    • Click Submit
  • To remove a member
    • Select their name in the Selected Items box
    • Click the < button
  • To delete a Group
    • Click Delete Group
    • Click OK
  • Click Submit
• If you chose Random Enroll
  • Decide how members are to be distributed to the groups and how to deal with extra students
  • Click Submit

• Click Module
• Click Add Course Module OR Add Group Module
  • Group Modules: Group Assignments, Group Properties, and Group Tools
  • Course Modules are more numerous, and each has a description next to it.
• Click Add under any Tools you wish to add
• Click OK